Comments on: Making Google Gadgets Go

By: Josh

Josh — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 13:38:34 +0000

Could you make a gadget out of your pilot light feed with a twitter link so we can just tweet your husband right from there if it goes out?

By: Mang

Mang — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 14:21:52 +0000

Pamela,

I haven’t played with gadgets but if you want to avoid caching use a ? to make the browser think you’ve got a query going. As in http://www.portaltotheuniverse.org/gadgets/images/Jodrell7m.png?1

For an example look at the clear sky chart link at http://mangsbatpage.433rd.com/2008/09/whats-up-lloyd-manor-park-sky-forecast.html

By: Jorge Schrauwen

Jorge Schrauwen — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 09:25:44 +0000

You could try to force reload the image via javascript

html:

javascript:
//load dummy image… a blank one or so
document.getElementById(“theImage”).src = “http://www.example.org/dummy.jpg”;
//load image again
document.getElementById(“theImage”).src = “http://www.example.org/stats.jpg”;

although I’m not sure how that would work inside a google gadget. Maybe it will help.